Abstract

Previously listed possible synergies between energypoverty and climate actions have been mostly addressing eitherclimate change mitigation benefits of reducing ambient airpollutants or benefits of increased deep energy-efficiency andenergy conservation through better technologies. This paper,however, analyses implications of access to modern energy onenvironmental and human wellbeing from the perspective ofadaptation to climate change and argues for another additionalsynergy between two seemingly separate issues; the impacts ofimproved access to modern energy services on the households’resilience to climate stress. This argument is illustrated throughdescribing energy poverty situation and climate vulnerability ofMongolia, a lower middle income country in Northern-east Asia.Which is then followed by identification of possible directbenefits of modern energy services on improved human,financial and natural capital - crucial determinants of adaptivecapacity of households to climatic disruptions.